{"id":5962,"date":"2025-10-17T05:20:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T05:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nupurljlnu.com\/?p=5962"},"modified":"2025-10-17T05:20:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T05:20:34","slug":"state-of-maharashtra-vs-sagar-vishwanath-borkar-whether-court-can-permit-the-accuseds-identification-by-victim-in-the-court-by-showing-his-photograph-to-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nupurljlnu.com\/?p=5962","title":{"rendered":"State of Maharashtra Vs. Sagar Vishwanath Borkar: Whether court can permit the accused’s identification by victim in the court by showing his photograph to her?\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Whether court can permit the accused’s identification by victim in the court by showing his photograph to her?
Firstly, we would like to appreciate the submission of the<\/p>\n\n\n\n

learned counsel as to whether identification of both the accused by<\/p>\n\n\n\n

the \u201cvictim\u201d was proper identification or not because they were<\/p>\n\n\n\n

identified by the \u201cvictim\u201d in the Court from their photographs. {Para 66}<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \n
  1. The first information report would show that apart from<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    penal provisions of the Indian Penal Code, the Investigation Officer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    also registered the offence under Section 6 of the POCSO Act, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Similarly, the charge was also framed against both the accused for<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    the offence punishable under Section 6 of the POCSO Act. Clause<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    (d) of Section 2 of the POCSO Act defines \u201cchild\u201d and according to<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    the said provision, the \u201cchild\u201d means \u2013 \u201cany person below the age of<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    eighteen years.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \n
    1. In the earlier part of this judgment, we have already<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      dealt with the issue of age and has recorded a finding that the victim<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      was a \u201cchild\u201d under the provisions of the POCSO Act. The trial was<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      conducted in the Court of learned Special Judge, Buldhana as Special<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      (POCSO) Case No. 27\/2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        \n
      1. The POCSO Act was enacted to protect the children from<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

        the offence of sexual assault, sexual harassment and pornography<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        and provide for establishment of Special Courts for trial of such<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        offences and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        Chapter V of the POCSO Act deals with the procedure for reporting<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        of cases. Chapter VI of the said Act deals with the procedure for<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        recording the statement of the child ; and Chapter VIII of the Act<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        deals with the procedure and powers of the Special Courts of<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        recording of evidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          \n
        1. Section 36 of the POCSO Act is reproduced hereunder :<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

          \u201cSection 36 \u2013 Child not to see at the time of testifying –<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          (1) The Special Court shall ensure that the Child is<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          not exposed in any way to the accused at the time<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          of recording of the evidence, while at the same<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          time ensuring that the accused is in a position to<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          hear the statement of the child and communicate<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          with his advocate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          (2) For the purposes of sub-section (1), the Special<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          Court may record the statement of a child through<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          video conferencing or by utilizing single visibility<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          mirrors or curtains or any other device.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          Sub-section 1 of Section 36 mandates the Special Court<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          that the said Court shall ensure that the child is not exposed in any<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          way to the accused at the time of recording of evidence, while at the<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          same time ensuring that the accused is in a position to hear the<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          statement of the child and communicate with his advocate. Subsection 2 of Section 36 also permits the Special Court to record<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          statement of the child through video conferencing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

            \n
          1. In our view, in order to give complete meaning to subsection<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

            1 of Section 36 of the POCSO Act, the learned Special Judge<\/p>\n\n\n\n

            was absolutely right in recording evidence of the \u201cvictim\u201d in respect of identification of accused persons by allowing the learned prosecutor to show their photographs. Further it was never the case of any of the accused either during trial or even before this Court that the photographs of the accused were not shown to the victim. Even it was not their case either during trial or even before this Court that the accused persons were not having opportunity to hear the statement of the child i.e. \u201cvictim\u201d and they were unable to<\/p>\n\n\n\n

            communicate with their advocate in that behalf. In view of this, we<\/p>\n\n\n\n

            have no hesitation in our mind to reject the submission made by the<\/p>\n\n\n\n

            learned counsel that the identification of accused persons in the<\/p>\n\n\n\n

            Court by the \u201cvictim\u201d is vitiated because they were identified by the<\/p>\n\n\n\n

            \u201cvictim\u201d through photographs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

            IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY<\/p>\n\n\n\n

            : NAGPUR BENCH : NAGPUR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

            CRIMINAL CONFIRMATION CASE NO. 01 OF 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n

            State of Maharashtra, Vs Sagar Vishwanath Borkar,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

            CORAM : V. M. DESHPANDE and AMIT B. BORKAR, JJ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

            Dated: SEPTMEBER 07, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n

            JUDGMENT [Per V. M. Deshpande, J.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

            Whether court can permit the accused’s identification by victim in the court by showing his photograph to her?Firstly, we would like to appreciate the submission of the learned counsel as to whether identification of both the accused by the “victim” was proper identification or not because they were identified by the “victim” in the Court […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nState of Maharashtra Vs. 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